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Just came across a summary of a talk by Peter Thiel on how PayPal got started, . Thiel was a libertarian, trying to work out how to claw bac...

Strange Maps has a map of Internet Black Holes, places where the government restricts access to the Internet

TAR ART RAT and The Popeye Journals both had posts on Owen Wilson's alleged suicide attempt. TPJ talks about the stigma of mental illnes...

Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman of about my own age, that is, somewhere not far from sixty. In the morning, one might say, his face was...

The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what y...

Languagehat has a post on the etymology of the word 'cry', going back to the Latin 'Quirites!' ('[Help], citizens!'...

Have just discovered that Wordpress lets you put equations in posts using LaTeX. The FAQ here . They don't support all LaTeX packages, ...